Word: sb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Guild says many properties with state-mandated below-market rents exist throughout the state. Should SB 541 become law, she says, their tenants will not have the recourse she did should their landlords change the terms of the leases...
...Skip Schloming contends that SB 541 would not prevent cases like Guild's from coming to court...
...factions have much invested in SB 541, which would require tenants to put rent in escrow accounts if they claimed code violations by their landlords...
...SB 541 passes, even if tenants disappear, the landlords can access their accrued rents in the escrow account...
Tenants point out that a landlord could suddenly raise the rent should the tenant claim a code violation. Under SB 541, until the tenant funneled this heightened rent into the escrow account, the tenant's case would not be heard...